This dirham of the Volga Bulgars, imitating those of the Saminids, was found near Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland (not by me). I happen...
It was Josiah Wedgewood who was the famous china maker and abolitionist.
Gadara is at the northern tip of Jordan overlooking the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights. It's modern name is Umm Qais after the Ottoman...
This is my 'godless' Florin. It was of course, a silver coin worth 1/10th of a Pound as it says on the reverse. As far as I am aware it was the...
The gold/silver ratio that we ponder over was related specifically to coins, not the ‘free-market’. The GSR is calculated as the ratio of the...
Some time ago I posted a short article on the subject on my 'Historia' web-site. It might be of interest:...
In pre-modern times, gold and silver were used to make coins. Therefore metal gave coins their value and coins gave metal their values. Today,...
The current price of silver is 0.86 USD per gram, so it would only cost a forger 12 bucks to make a 60 dollar fake. All those holes do look...
I can't work out how to write in Greek script, but doesn't the reverse say BASILEUS?
Excellent write-up. One small point, though. Coins weren't clipped to test them. They were clipped so that the clippings could be taken to the...
Here's an interesting article on Nuremberg jettons, as they are known.http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/nuremberg-jetons.html
The Argenteus is called by some writers a Siliqua because both coins were around the same size and weight. Indeed they must be considered as...
Well it can't be a cast AND a fourré. The Heritage coin is an imitation of an Athens coin by another city-state. I think yours is a contemporary...
Just to fill a few gaps: Constantine III [ATTACH] Maximus of Spain [ATTACH] Jovinus [ATTACH] Anthemius [ATTACH]
"The Arches" were/are the railway arches underneath Charing Cross Station. I think the Saturday coin market must have finished years ago.
The George III halfcrown is listed in Spink as number 3789. My copy of Spink dates back to 2012. The 1818 coin is listed as 125 GBP in Very fine...
[ATTACH] A solidus of Anthemius (467-472). Actually from two famous collections. It is from the Bramhall Collection, a gift from Robert Bridge....
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